Verse 10

He died for us so that whether we are alert or asleep we will come to life together with him.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 5:15 : 15 And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.
  • Rom 14:8-9 : 8 If we live, we live for the Lord; if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. 9 For this reason Christ died and returned to life, so that he may be the Lord of both the dead and the living.
  • 1 Cor 15:3 : 3 For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received– that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,
  • Rom 8:34 : 34 Who is the one who will condemn? Christ is the one who died(and more than that, he was raised), who is at the right hand of God, and who also is interceding for us.
  • Matt 20:28 : 28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
  • John 10:11 : 11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
  • John 10:15 : 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father– and I lay down my life for the sheep.
  • John 10:17 : 17 This is why the Father loves me– because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.
  • John 15:13 : 13 No one has greater love than this– that one lays down his life for his friends.
  • 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
  • 1 Thess 4:13 : 13 The Lord Returns for Believers Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest who have no hope.
  • 1 Thess 4:17 : 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be suddenly caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.
  • 1 Tim 2:6 : 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, revealing God’s purpose at his appointed time.
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.
  • 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were healed.
  • 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.
  • Rom 5:6-8 : 6 For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 (For rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person perhaps someone might possibly dare to die.) 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.